part of India is at this hour reeling under it; let them now know the warmth and love of Britain's heart. Palestine still lies waste; and Britons have been foremost to explore her ruined desolation. Let Britain, in these days of national intervention, seek the return of Palestine's ancient people to the allegiance of their only lawful King; and may we not hope to be humble labourers in the righteous work, of causing His name once more to be "famed throughout all Syria !"

And now, if I ask-Is it not reasonable and right-nay, is it not necessary and incumbent, that every student of medicine should contemplate the profession of his choice in this point of view?— surely I shall not be met with an answer in the negative. He may know that profession well in every ordinary aspect-he may be learned and skilful and practised; and yet if he know nothing of Medicine as a handmaid to Religion, in the saving of lost souls, he is but imperfectly and inadequately informed, and ignorant of its brighter and "better part." "The proper study of mankind is man;" and to none surely does this adage apply so forcibly and fully as to the medical practitioner. He must study man not in part but as a whole; his mind as well as his body; the immortal as well as

the mortal part; the animal machine and "the image of God." This city has long been famous as a medical school. She has sent forth many able and skilful men to all parts of the world, Even now there is a talk of improving the more advanced department of Clinical instruction. I venture to desiderate another step. While we have our Theoretical Medicine, Practical Medicine, Surgical Medicine, Juridical Medicine, Obstetric Medicine, Clinical Medicine, let us have still a seventh, though it needs no establishment of a separate chair— Missionary Medicine-which the pupil shall study over his Bible and on his knees. Let us aim at not only providing the world-for already throughout the wide world the alumni of this University are found occupying stations of honour and usefulness-with men skilful to heal all bodily ailments; let us hope to send forth a goodly number on a nobler errand-seeking souls for hire; combating spiritual as well as bodily disease, and striving to save both from the first and from the second death.

It has been remarked by one well qualified to speak on such a subject-Dr. Kalley-that in the ordinary practice of Medicine there is a sense of insecurity and incompleteness, even in our most successful services. There is an 66 innate yearning after employment in labours whose results shall

endure through succeeding generations." Disease may be baffled and dislodged; but only in part, or only for a time. Cure may seem complete, and for a while all is joy and gladness; yet still the sense of insecurity creeps in and mars it all. We know that certainly-though we know not how soonanother or the same disease will return; that all our skill and all our care will prove in vain; and that the frame we tend so anxiously now, will die, and rot, and be forgotten. But let there be another and a higher aim. Let us look and labour beyond the body and beyond the grave. There is no leprosy of the soul so virulent but we may direct the leper to a fountain infallible to cleanse; there is no hurt of the soul by the darts of Satan so deadly but we may point to the cure, telling there is "balm in Gilead, and a physician there;" there is no death of the soul so deep but we may guide to a Spirit whose breathings shall quicken even corruption, causing the "slain" to live again, and to live for ever. Then it is, and then only, that the mind loses the sense of want and insecurity, and that labour rests in hope of seeing its results imperishable and eternal.

In the cure of bodily disease, and preservation from temporal death alone, the patient's gratitude is often but short-lived, and at best only coeval with the

uncertain tenure of his existence; but if these be combined with the cure of spiritual disease and preservation from the second death, a gratitude is engendered which knows a limit indeed-for it is second to another, a higher, and a holier lovethe Saviour's due-but it knows no end; unchanged, it is proof against the vicissitudes of this world, and lives on throughout the countless ages of that which is to come.

It is objected by some, I understand, that such spiritual interference is unwarrantable, because it is apt to excite and alarm, and do injury thereby to the sick man's body, whose welfare it is the special function of the medical attendant to protect. To this there are many answers; among others, the following:-We of course presume that discretion and judgment are to be used in such grave matters, and that fully as much care and skill are to be expended in rightly timing and adjusting the spiritual prescription as the corporeal. While faithful in this, there is no necessity that we should cease to be wise. And again, is it kind, friendly, or warrantable, not to inform a man of danger, which is not distant or problematical, but actual, and at the door, lest the news might flutter and excite him?-danger which, though pressing, is still remediable, but remediable only by instant effort. Passing the burning house

of a neighbour who is asleep, shall we not rouse him, lest he be alarmed, and do himself an injury? Or, if he be just awake, and suspecting something wrong appeals to us, who he conceives must know the truth, shall we still withhold it, lest he be excited, and die of fear? The argument is monstrous, when applied to the things of this world. How much more monstrous, as affecting the things of eternity! A fellowman, afloat on the swollen stream of time, is borne headlong to eternal destruction, asleep, and dreaming not of danger; there are yet both time and space for his escape, were he awake, and to his feet, in earnest; and, as he sweeps past, shall we refrain from rousing him-lest he be made afraid?

Or, if the danger of alarm be still harped on by our opponents, then we know of a simple remedy. Let allusion to spiritual things in sickness, by the physician and surgeon, not be an occasional, but an habitual practice, that so their introduction at any time may not be regarded by patient and friends as tantamount to a death-warrant. Let these things be spoken of at ordinary times, and not be reserved for urgent deathbeds only, where, alas! sad experience tells that they are least useful; and then the objection on the score of alarm falls wholly to the ground.

Others, again, say-"The medical man meddling in such matters steps out of his province; it is ultra